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The Auction (1778) [ People ]
… As proud of other's follies as her own . In vain the attending Ministers divide The flowing tresses, or, in borrow'd pride, Attach the ringlets: Quick, her hands displace, With rude attack, the honours of her face. Before the once-lov'd … insults me with a pitying strain. “Sure some ill-omen'd Sprite was sent to guide “My youthful footsteps in the paths of Pride, “Whose magic power, and unresisted art, “In secret chains secur'd my thoughtless heart; “And in one giddy moment … I was shewn, “In all the honours of my mother's gown, “To meet the sneers and censures of the Town. “Yet to preserve my pride, my Sisters wore “Each faded robe that I could wear no more. “But, ah! this World, which I so long'd to see, …
Women | Beauty | Leisure
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The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… THE Kit-Cats, &c. I Sing the Assembly's Rise, Encrease and Fame, That condescends to honour Kit-Cats Name, Whose Pride, like thine, O Rome, from small Beginnings came. Oh thou! who Chief Art to the Muses dear, Whom Poets Court, and … noble Projects, didst this Order found. And still dost cherish, cultivate and guide Thy humble Creature, and with decent Pride Dost, like the God of Wine , the Kit-Cat state bestride. Gracious appear, as when thou mount's thy Seat High in the … to both great Aquisitions came, To him the Profit, and to them the Fame. On the fair Strand by which with graceful Pride Unrivall'd Thames rolls his alternate Tyde, Between the Courts which most the People awe, (In one the Monarch …
Clubs | Poetry | Assemblies
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On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… The positive pronounce without dismay; Their want of light and intellect supplied By sparks absurdity strikes out of pride. Without the means of knowing right from wrong, They always are decisive, clear, and strong. Where others toil with … their own likeness in a brother's face. The cause is plain, and not to be denied, The proud are always most provoked by pride. Few competitions but engender spite; And those the most, where neither has a right. The point of honour has been … Few Frenchmen of this evil have complain'd; It seems as if we Britons were ordained, By way of wholesome curb upon our pride, To fear each other, fearing none beside. The cause perhaps inquiry may descry, Self-searching with an introverted …
Conversation | Crime
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Of Other Laws of Nature (1651) [ Concepts ]
… declare Hatred, or Contempt of another.” The breach of which Law, is commonly called Contumely. The Ninth, Against Pride The question who is the better man, has no place in the condition of meer Nature; where, (as has been shewn … Law of Nature, I put this, “That every man acknowledge other for his Equall by Nature.” The breach of this Precept is Pride. The Tenth Against Arrogance On this law, dependeth another, “That at the entrance into conditions of Peace, no man … The Laws Of Nature Are Eternal; The Lawes of Nature are Immutable and Eternall, For Injustice, Ingratitude, Arrogance, Pride, Iniquity, Acception of persons, and the rest, can never be made lawfull. For it can never be that Warre shall …
Nature | Social Contract | Law
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Gentleman's Magazine on Spring Gardens (1732) [ Places ]
… fate for oars, a gen'ral call Proclaims the price, so skullers take them all. Now the glad pinnace bounds with wanton pride, Darts from the shore, and beats the foaming tide, With joy they're driven by a prosperous gale, While the glad …
Gardens | Love
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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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The Retrospect (1812) [ Concepts ]
… It was not unrequited love That bade my 'wildered spirit rove; 'Twas not the pride disdaining life, That with this mortal world at strife Would yield to the soul's inward sense, Then groan in human …
Poetry | Friendship | Nature
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Amusements Serious and Comical (1730) [ Places / Practices ]
… a World of Brave Men, Gilt−Coaches, and Rich Liveries. Within some of them were Upstart Courtiers, blown up as big as Pride and Vanity could swell them to; sitting as Upright in their Chariots, as if a Stake had been driven through them. …
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The Author, 1763 [ Concepts ]
… When LORDLY Vassals her wide Empire own, When Wit, seduc'd by Envy, starts aside, And basely leagues with Ignorance and Pride, What Now should tempt us, by false hopes misled, Learning's unfashionable paths to tread; To bear those labours, …
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